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Kingdom Hearts HD Final Mix (PS4)

I bought the 1.5 + 2.5 Remix deal when it was on sale, and now beat the first Kingdom Hearts. I had never played it before now (well, 10 minutes over at a friend's on his PS2 a long time ago), but I have to say it was a mixed bag for me. The story is pretty cool, and holy cow does it change tone at the end. There is a certain charm to it too, and the Disney-inclusions are nice. I also personally loved the music.

However, I'm not so enamoured by the gameplay. It gets very spammy and repetitive, there is an enormous respawn rate, controls felt tanky, camera is tanky, some platforming sections are just cringeworthy because of those things, and the seemingly endless amount of bosses in the End of the World was just getting annoying. I didn't particularly love the level design either: even if it's a fairly old game, everything feels rather basic and simplistic, yet managed to have confusing progression now and then.

At one point did I start actually loving the game, and it's when I got overpowered and mowed down the endless groups of enemies quickly. It wasn't ever truly hard or anything, but mostly very slow before that happened. I personally thought Hollow Bastion was awesome, much more fun and intricate than the other worlds. Sometimes, the loot you find can be really rewarding as well, that was nicely spaced out I think.

Overall, I did have fun, but too many times that momentum was broken by something less enjoyable. However, I'm definitely going to play another one at some point. It's only the first game in the series after all! :)
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